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Animated legacy films for families of faith

We bring your stories to life.

Your story, animated. Your grandchildren will see your life, hear your voice, and know your faith. You just talk.

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Let them see it, hear it, and hold it.

For grandparentsBless your family this Christmas → For sons and daughtersGive this to my mom or dad →

In her own words

“And then I said, ‘God, I am going to do it. I’m going to write it. Just send me the right person to help me through the process.’ And He did.”

Graciela Marques-Hahn
author of 21 Envelopes, a true story

See what we make

Her story, animated.

The trailer for 21 Envelopes: Graciela’s true story, from her own words, drawn in her likeness and brought to life.

See the films and prices
You talkA few conversationsBy phone or Zoom, at times that suit you
You writeNothingNot one word. We do the writing
You receiveYour animated filmYour story on screen, plus a printed keepsake to hold

The holidays · 2026

Give the story this season.

Six Christmas founding places · order by November 24

Bless your children and grandchildren this Christmas.

The Christmas Animated Blessing: your blessing, animated in your own voice. An eight-to-ten-minute film: one blessing over your whole family, or a moment for each of up to eight people, with their photographs brought to life. Premiered by December 22, or on a date your family chooses after Christmas.

What goes into your blessing ↓

About 8 to 10 minutes, set by your voice. The film runs as long as your recorded blessing, and your photographs play under your words.

About 40 of your photos, brought to life. Each one becomes a scene of about 12 to 15 seconds: a few seconds of gentle movement, then a slow move closer while you keep talking. That pace feels unhurried for every generation watching.

PartTimePhotos
Opening: who you are and your familyabout 1 min4–5
A blessing for each person, up to 8 peopleabout 1 min eachabout 4 each
Closing: a prayer over the whole familyabout 1 min4–5
Total8–10 minabout 40

Naming each person is up to you. Bless each one by name, or bless the whole family together so no one is compared.

What we’ll ask you for: about 50 photos, so we can choose the best 40. Blessing fewer than 8 people? Each person gets more photos, about 6 to 8, or the film runs a little shorter.

Always yours: every face is checked against your real photos, and the voice is always your own, never generated.

$2,200 Christmas founding price · full price $3,150

Sign up for the free three-evening Answered Prayer Challenge and take $250 more off: $1,950.

Reserve my blessing Join the waiting list Questions first? Book a call →

Until December 23

The Legacy Gift card

For sons and daughters: a card that reserves a place. Give $500, $1,000, or any amount you choose. The full amount counts toward any film or memoir.

$500 or $1,000

Give $500 Or give $1,000 → Or choose your amount →

Your Christmas timeline

Two families share each set of dates, so every family gets our full attention. Conversations are by phone or Zoom, at times that suit you.

Places 1 and 2 · order by Nov 9

  1. Two conversationsNov 10 & 12, or Nov 11 & 13
  2. Approve the drawingsNov 18–19
  3. Private previewNov 22–23
  4. Ready for your familyby Dec 1

Places 3 and 4 · order by Nov 16

  1. Two conversationsNov 17 & 19, or Nov 18 & 20
  2. Approve the drawingsNov 23–24
  3. Private previewNov 27 or Nov 29
  4. Ready for your familyby Dec 8

Places 5 and 6 · order by Nov 24

  1. Two conversationsNov 30 & Dec 2, or Dec 1 & 3
  2. Approve the drawingsDec 7–8
  3. Private previewDec 14–15
  4. Ready for your familyby Dec 22

Places are filled in order. If a pair’s order date has passed, you receive the next dates. Premiere it on Christmas, or on any day your family chooses once it is ready.

The Christmas waiting list

When all six places are taken, join the waiting list. If we can make room for one more family before Christmas, we’ll write to you first, in the order you joined. There’s nothing to pay until we do.

Christmas Table Questions, printable place cards with a question at every seat, are in the shop. Small ways to begin at home →

For sons and daughters

Give your parent the gift of being asked.

Their voice won’t always be here. Their story can be.

Your parent talks. We animate their story. Your children watch it for years. Your parent owns it, and you get your own copy of the film, and of the printed memoir if your family chooses one.

Brothers and sisters often give this together. The Animated Memoir is $9,500 at today’s founding price, so four siblings would each give $2,375 toward one film.

Each of you can give a Legacy Gift card for your exact share: choose $500 or $1,000, or type in any amount from $100 to $2,999. Every card counts toward the same film, and we send one invoice for whatever is left. A share of $3,000 or more is paid by bank-transfer invoice.

Choose your amount Legacy Gift card, $500 Legacy Gift card, $1,000

No risk: the card is refundable for 12 months if your parent decides not to go ahead after a first conversation. The full amount counts toward any film. Or give your parent the Christmas Animated Blessing →

Is my mother going to find this too difficult?

No. If she can talk on the phone for an hour, she can do this. Nothing to install, nothing to type, no deadline. If a video call goes wrong, we use the telephone.

What if my parent isn’t ready to say yes?

Then the gift waits. We never write anyone’s story without them wanting to tell it, and the Legacy Gift card is refundable within 12 months if your parent decides not to go ahead after a first conversation.

Three ways to begin

I want to bless my grandchildren

The Animated Blessing → or start free with the Answered Prayer Challenge →

I want my whole story animated

The Animated Memoir →

It’s a gift for my parent

The Legacy Gift card →
One conversation15 minutes, free

Not sure which? Every path starts with one short conversation.

What you get

A few conversations, and your story is on screen.

The prayers you prayed and what came of them, the things you learned the hard way, and the years before your family knew you.

You talk. We listen, write and animate it, in your words and your voice. Your name is on it.

An older man walking a mountain trail with a small child

So they walk where you walked

Why this exists

You’ve planned what to leave them. Have you left them you?

Why this exists →

Who this is for

Somebody who held it togetherand was never asked how.

You held a family, a church or a business together through the hard years. Your grandchildren should know how.

And if you’re their son or daughter, there’s a way for you to give this too.

Three generations of a family together on a porch

The people it was all held together for

The shop

Small ways to begin at home

Start with our Table Questions: printable place cards with a question at every seat, so the stories start at your own table. Print them tonight. Mugs, sweatshirts and tablecloths keep the stories going all season.

Visit the shop →

Rather talk than write? Book a story conversation

A wide alpine lake below a mountain range

Not sure where to start? Talk with us for 15 minutes.

Tell us whose story it is. We’ll tell you what we would make and what it costs.

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The work

Your words, kept true. Your story, brought to life.

Every film is made from words: a blessing, a memoir, or pages you’ve already written.

The promise underneath all of it

Detail may be heightened. Facts are never added.

Every line in your film and book is something you said. Nothing is invented to sound better. The craft goes into rhythm, imagery and shape, never into new facts.

You choose how polished your words sound, in writing, before we start.

LevelWhat it means
As spokenYour words, cleaned. Grammar and order only
RenderedShaped into scenes. Detail heightened, never invented
LiteraryFull craft — imagery, rhythm, structure. Still no added facts

Every price is on the page

Two films. One free beginning.

  • The Animated Blessing, about 8 to 10 minutes. $3,150 (the Christmas Animated Blessing: $2,200 for six founding places). Your blessing over each person you love, in your own voice.
  • The Animated Memoir, about 30 minutes, fully animated. $9,500 founding price, full price $15,705. From your journals or book, or with your memoir written with you for $15,500 founding, full price $22,225.
  • The Answered Prayer Challenge. Three evenings, one on one, free.
See films and memoirs The Answered Prayer Challenge

Fifteen minutes on the telephone settles it faster than a table can.

Questions people ask

Before you get in touch

Do I have to write anything?

No. Not one word, at any stage. You talk, we write, and you tell us what is right and what is not. People who would never sit down at a keyboard talk beautifully for ninety minutes.

Is my life interesting enough for a film?

Yes. Your grandchildren don’t need an adventure. They need to know how you got through, what you prayed for, and what you would tell them now.

I’m not good with computers. Can I still do this?

Yes. We can do every conversation by phone. You never type, upload or install anything.

Can I give this to my grandchildren as a gift?

Yes. The Animated Blessing is made for that: a moment for each grandchild, premiered at your family gathering.

How do I pay?

By card for the Animated Blessing. Larger films are paid in parts by bank invoice, and you never pay the last part until you have seen your film.

Does AI write my book?

We use AI tools to transcribe our conversations and draft passages from your own words. Then we rewrite every sentence, check every fact against the recording, and add the craft. Nothing is added that you didn’t say. Your agreement describes this in writing.

Can you make a film from a book I already have?

Yes, that’s the Animated Memoir. You confirm the book is yours to adapt.

Are the films right for young children?

Yes. Each film is made so an 8-year-old can follow it and a teenager respects it. Hard seasons are told honestly and gently.

Is my mother going to find this too difficult?

Almost certainly not. Read the full answer for sons and daughters.

Is this only for Christians?

Our work is made for families of faith; answered prayer, Scripture and blessing are at its center. The method works on any life, and the faith layer can be set aside if you’d rather.

Who actually owns the book?

The storyteller does, completely, on final payment — the manuscript, the cover, the files, everything. Your name is on it and ours is not. We will not mention that we wrote it if you would rather we did not.

When a son or daughter pays, they receive their own copy of the film, and printed copies of the memoir if the family chooses one.

What if something happens before it is finished?

A fair question and nobody likes asking it. Your agreement names someone in your family who can act for you, and it says that if we cannot finish for any reason you are refunded everything except the deposit and handed the full transcript, so another writer could pick it up. You own every recording and every draft as we go.

Is there a subscription, or anything to renew?

No. One price, one book and film, yours outright. The only monthly option is for authors who choose ongoing help after a book launch, and that is always optional.

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Why this exists

You’ve planned what to leave them. Now leave them you.

There is an instrument for the house. There is none for the faith it was built on.

The gap

There’s a will for the house and a trust for the accounts. There’s nothing for your faith, and it’s the most valuable thing you’ll pass down.

Why you kept believing in the year it cost you. What you decided at two in the morning. Without a record, it passes down by accident, or not at all.

Almost every family means to. Almost none of them get to it.

Isaiah 58

“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will raise up and restore the age-old foundations;
You will be called Repairer of the Breach,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”

Isaiah 58:12 · AMP

The breach is the place where the telling stopped. Your story repairs it.

Why we do this

We keep your story true to your words, then bring it to life so your family can see it. Your name is on it, never ours.

“…and a book of remembrance was written before Him.”
Malachi 3:16 · AMP
Jenny's desk: a marked-up manuscript of 21 Envelopes, her glasses and pen, a cup of coffee, and the book's website on the laptop

The closing section of every book

What the Floor Is Made Of

These six parts shape your book and your film. Families read this part first.

What you were given

What was already there when you arrived — and who put it there.

What formed you

The people, the places and the decisions that made you the person your family knows.

What grew you

The practices, the routines and the disciplines. The unglamorous part nobody sees.

What you built

The work, the family, the church, the thing that is still standing.

What it cost

The sacrifices, plainly stated. Not a complaint — an account.

What you carried alone

The struggles you did not share, so your children would not have to carry them. This is the movement that changes families, and it can be sealed until a date you choose.

Telling the next generation what the floor they stand on is made of.

Talk to us about the six movements

Who this is for

A person in their sixties, seventies or eighties who held something together — a family, a church, a business, a marriage that went through a bad decade — and who has never been asked how.

Your story, animated. Your grandchildren will see your life, hear your voice, and know your faith. You just talk.

And if you’re their son or daughter, there’s a way for you to give this too.

And who it is not for

Anyone who wants a book that settles a score. We will not write one. Anyone who wants the story improved — a detail added because it would read better. And anyone who wants to commission their parent’s memoir without their parent wanting it, because the book only works if the person telling it wants to talk.

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Films

Your story, animated, for the grandchildren who will want to know you.

Drawn in your likeness. Told in your own voice. Every price is on this page.

See what we make

21 Envelopes: an animated memoir

Graciela Marques-Hahn’s true story, from her own words, drawn in her likeness and brought to life scene by scene.

Trailer · 1:33

What makes your film yours

Nothing in it exists until your story is told.

What goes into one minute of your film

  • Drawn from your real photographs
  • Every word is yours
  • Your own voice, never a hired one
A real photograph of a man above an alpine lake
The photograph
The same photograph, brought to life

How your film is made

  1. ConversationsYou talk; we listen and record.
  2. The scriptYour words, in order.You approve
  3. The charactersDrawn from your photographs.You approve
  4. The scenesBuilt and brought to life.
  5. Private previewYou see it before anyone else.You approve
  6. The premiereWatched together, as a family.

Begin here · free

The Answered Prayer Challenge

Free

The prayer God answered in the season that tested you, told in your own voice. Three evenings, one on one.

  • Three evenings on Zoom
  • Your answered-prayer story, on one page
  • A 30-second animated film of your story, yours to keep
Take a place

Three people per round.

About 8 to 10 minutes

The Animated Blessing

$3,150 paid in full

Bless your family in your own voice. Together, or a moment for each person by name, with their photographs brought to life.

Want it before Christmas? The Christmas Animated Blessing has six founding places at $2,200, or $1,950 when you sign up for the free Answered Prayer Challenge.

  • Two conversations, by phone or Zoom
  • A moment for each person you bless, up to eight, or one blessing over the whole family
  • The blessing printed for each person
  • A keepsake box
Begin the Animated Blessing

The full price you pay counts toward an Animated Memoir within 12 months.

Fully animated

About 30 minutes

The Animated Memoir

Full price $15,705

$9,500 founding price

Your whole life, animated: the film your great-grandchildren will watch. Every scene drawn in your likeness and told in your own voice.

  • Every minute fully animated
  • You approve the script, the characters and the preview
  • A family premiere and a keepsake box

Choose how your story begins

I’ve already written itWe start from your journals, your book, or the one your family made with Storyworth or Remento.$9,500 for your film
Not written yet? We write it with you.Five to eight conversations on Zoom or by phone. Your memoir is written, approved by you and printed for the family, then it becomes the script of your film. Extra printed copies are $45 each.$15,500 for your memoir and film · full price $22,225
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Given togetherBrothers and sisters often share it. Each can give a Legacy Gift card, and every card counts toward the same film.
Watched for yearsEvery Christmas, every birthday, every time someone asks who she was.
The only oneThe only film your great-grandchildren will have of this voice.

For sons and daughters

Give your parent the gift of being asked.

Their voice won’t always be here. Their story can be. A Legacy Gift card of $500, $1,000, or any amount you choose counts in full toward any film.

Brothers and sisters often give this together. Each can give a card for their own share, from $100 to $2,999, and every card counts toward the same film.

Refundable within 12 months if your parent decides not to go ahead after a first conversation.

$500 or $1,000

Give $500 Give $1,000 Choose your amount

What you’re really buying

Not minutes of video. Your face, your voice and your faith, kept for your family. Every scene is drawn for your story and checked by hand, never a template.

How your film arrives

A keepsake box

Every film arrives in a keepsake box: an engraved USB drive and a printed card, with a private link for streaming and backup. Films are made for all ages, so an 8-year-old can follow along and a teenager respects it. Watch it together at the premiere, then again on your own.

Something else in mind?

A custom film

Remembering someone who has passed, or holding old recordings? We can make a custom film from them.

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Your book is finished

Publish it and sell it.

For authors who want their finished book on Amazon and on their own website, with someone to set it up properly and keep it running.

  • The Author Launch, $3,500. An author website, Amazon KDP in paperback and Kindle, a Stripe store for signed copies, and a 30-day launch kit. Invoiced, with bank payment.
  • Or choose what you need: author website $1,800; Amazon KDP publishing $950; direct sales setup $350; book launch marketing kit $750.
  • The Author Partner retainer, $500 a month after launch: site updates, listing care, fresh marketing each month and a monthly sales check-in. Three-month minimum.

Talk about your book

Start the retainer

Free

The Story Conversation

15 minutes, free. Tell us whose story it is, and we’ll tell you what we would make and what it costs.

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Small ways to begin at home

Table Questions to print at home tonight: a question at every seat to get the stories going. Plus mugs, sweatshirts and tablecloths for the season.

Visit the shop

How payment works

Larger films: you see your film before the last payment.

What you are buyingTo beginThenHow
The Animated Blessing Paid in full—Card
The Animated Memoir 50%25% when you approve the characters, 25% after your private previewBank-transfer invoice
The Animated Memoir with your memoir written 50%25% when you approve the manuscript, 25% after your private previewBank-transfer invoice
The Legacy Gift card $500, $1,000, or any amount from $100 to $2,999, in full—Card

Founding prices are for the first three families at each price. The price rises after every three families: the Animated Memoir goes from $9,500 to $12,500 to its full price of $15,705, and with your memoir written, from $15,500 to $18,500 to $22,225. The Animated Blessing is $3,150. The Christmas Animated Blessing has six founding places at $2,200, ordered by November 24. Payments of $3,000 or more are made by bank-transfer invoice. Finished files and printed copies are released once the final payment is made. If our first conversation shows a film is not right for you, your deposit comes back in full; after that, what you have paid covers the work already done.

Three evenings on Zoom · free

The Answered Prayer Challenge

In three evenings, the prayer God answered becomes a 30-second animated film, in your own voice. Free.

Only three people per round, and each meets with us one on one. Nights one and two run back to back. Night three, your premiere, follows within a week.

Next rounds · nights one and two

  • Nov 10–11 Tue & Wed
  • Nov 15–16 Sun & Mon
  • Dec 6–7 Sun & Mon

Night three, your premiere: a date and time we choose together, within a week of night two.

Take a place See the three evenings

What you’ll walk away with

A 30-second animated film

Your answered prayer, told in your own voice, with your photographs brought to life. Premiered for your family on night three, an evening we set together once your film is ready.

Your story, on one page

The season, the prayer and the answer, in your own words. Typeset and sent to you to print and share.

Your photographs, kept

Clean copies of the photographs you chose, sent back to you, ready for the family album or a future film.

Thirty minutes a night on Zoom, one on one. Nights one and two run back to back; night three, the premiere, runs about 45 minutes on an evening we set with you within a week, so we have time to animate your film. You answer out loud; we write and animate. Valued at $250, and free.

The three evenings

One answered prayer, told in three evenings.

NightWe talk aboutWhat it becomes
OneThe season that tested you, and the prayer God answered in itYour story, in your own words
TwoHow that answer formed your faith, and the photographs that hold itYour script, your photographs and your voice, recorded
ThreeThe premiereYour 30-second animated film, watched with family

Your family is welcome on night three. That evening we also show you what an Animated Blessing for each grandchild would look like, and what it costs. If you commission any film within a week of your premiere, the full $250 value of the Challenge comes off its price.

Why this exists

“And your people will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up and restore the age-old foundations; You will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”

Isaiah 58:12, AMP

Take a place

Only three people per round, each meeting with us one on one, so every family is given real attention. It is free. Choose your round below; dates for later rounds go to this list first.

These are nights one and two. We choose the date and time of night three together.

Free. We confirm your evening time by email within two business days. How we protect your information.

What the three evenings are not

  • Not a webinar. One on one, cameras on, thirty minutes a night
  • Not homework. You answer inside the session, before you close the call
  • Not writing. If you can talk about it, you can do this
  • Not a trap. Your story page and your film are yours whether or not you ever buy anything

If you have to miss one

If you miss a night, we begin the next one with your question, so nothing is lost.

See films and memoirs

Or book a story conversation

15 minutes, free. Tell us whose story it is, and we’ll tell you what we would make and what it costs.

Choose a time on our calendar

Or leave your details and we’ll write to you:

We reply within two business days. We do not add anyone to a mailing list and we do not share anything with anybody. Privacy notice.

What happens in the conversation

  1. You talk first. Who the book is for, and why now
  2. We tell you what we would do — which film, how long, what it costs
  3. We decide whether to go on. There is no follow-up sequence and nobody chases you

If we are not right for it, we will say so on the call rather than in an email a week later.

If you would rather just write to us

Some things are easier said in a paragraph than a form.

Email us directly

MetaMindful LLC · California · We reply within two business days

Deep Roots, Wide Branches

Rather talk than write?

Your journal is a beautiful start. If you’d rather tell your story out loud, we’ll listen and write it for you, and it becomes a film your family will keep.

Book a story conversation

Thank you

That has reached us.

We reply within two business days, usually sooner. If it is urgent, email us directly and say so in the subject line.

Read a finished book Back to the beginning

A book of remembrance

“…and a book of remembrance was written before Him.”

Malachi 3:16 · AMP

Your story, animated. Your grandchildren will see your life, hear your voice, and know your faith. You just talk.

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Jennifer Ninan, Legacy Filmmaker
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